| Cottage Hospital | |
|---|---|
 Cottage Hospital | |
  Shown in Monmouthshire | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 51°49′03″N2°42′48″W / 51.817431°N 2.713410°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Public NHS |
| Type | Community |
| History | |
| Opened | 1903 |
| Closed | 2006 |
| Links | |
| Lists | Hospitals in Wales |
The Cottage Hospital (Welsh : Ysbyty Bwthyn, Trefynwy) was a community hospital on the Hereford Road in Monmouth, Wales.
The Cottage Hospital was commissioned to replace the aging Monmouth Hospital and Dispensary in St James Square. [1] The proposed site, which had been previously occupied by the Monmouth County Gaol, was bought from the Duke of Beaufort for £250. [2] The foundation stone was laid by Lord Llangattock, President of the Hospital Board, on 27 September 1902. [3]
The hospital was designed by Richard Creed, built by Collins and Geoffrey and furnished by George Edwards of Monmouth. [4] The construction cost was around £7,500 of which £2,000 was donated by Lord Llangattock. [2] The designer had to agree with the local vicar that the building would not obstruct the latter's view from the vicarage. According to Keith Kissack the new hospital was "one of the most successful building projects of the period in Monmouth". [2]
The opening ceremony for the hospital was held on 6 November 1903 and started with a procession at 3pm from the earlier Dispensary in St James Square, led by the Monmouth Fire and Rescue Station and by Hamilton Traherne Baillie, Mayor of Monmouth. A crowd of around a 1,000 gathered at the site for the opening. [3]
After services transferred to the Monnow Vale Integrated Health and Social Care Facility, the Cottage Hospital closed in 2006. [5]
Monmouth is a town and community in Wales. It is situated where the River Monnow joins the River Wye, two miles from the Wales–England border. Monmouth is 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Cardiff, and 113 miles (182 km) west of London. It is within the Monmouthshire local authority, and the parliamentary constituency of Monmouth. The population in the 2011 census was 10,508, rising from 8,877 in 2001. Monmouth is the historic county town of Monmouthshire although Abergavenny is now the county town.
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George Vaughan Maddox was a nineteenth-century British architect and builder, whose work was undertaken principally in the town of Monmouth, Wales, and in the wider county. Working mainly in a Neo-Classical style, his extensive output made a significant contribution to the Monmouth townscape. The architectural historian John Newman considers that Monmouth owes to Maddox "its particular architectural flavour. For two decades from the mid-1820s he put up a sequence of public buildings and private houses in the town, in a style deft, cultured, and only occasionally unresolved." The Market Hall and 1-6 Priory Street are considered his "most important projects".
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There are a number of war memorials in Monmouth, Wales.
Little Castle House is a building in Monmouth, Wales. Also known as The Dispensary it was one of Monmouth's early medical facilities.
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Monnow Street is the main shopping street of Monmouth, south east Wales. It runs for about 500 yards in a south-westerly direction from Agincourt Square to the Monnow Bridge, which crosses the River Monnow.
12–16 Church Street in Monmouth, Wales, is a row of three shop houses designed by the architect George Vaughan Maddox and constructed c. 1837. They form part of Maddox's redevelopment of the centre of Monmouth and stand on Church Street, to the rear of Maddox's Priory Street. The architectural historian John Newman has written that Maddox's work "gives Monmouth its particular architectural flavour" and Cadw describes the grouping of 12–16 Church Street as "the best preserved early 19th century shopfront in Monmouth."